Biden’s Plagiarism

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Jonathan Beecher Field, an Obama supporter and English professor at Clemson, has written a devastating op-ed at InsideHigherEd.com on the subject of Joe Biden’s plagiarism. The article concludes that Biden’s plagiarism “suggests something of Biden’s character, indeed, in a realm more relevant to doing his job than was John Edwards’s philandering to his.” While Biden’s plagiarism of a speech by the British Labour party leader Neil Kinnock is fairly well-known, the professor notes that Biden’s plagiarism in law school is more troubling. This E.J. Dionne article from 1987 examines the depth of Biden’s dishonesty:

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